Sir John Alan Redwood (born 15 June 1951) is a British politician and academic who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham in Berkshire from 1987...
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as Party leader. In the leadership election, Major comfortably beat John Redwood in June 1995. Following a string of by-election defeats, the Conservatives'...
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intention to stand: Kenneth Clarke William Hague Michael Howard Peter Lilley John Redwood Stephen Dorrell – withdrew in favour of Clarke before the ballot. Dorrell...
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Sequoia sempervirens (redirect from Coast redwood)
treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living...
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John Redwood Anderson (1883 – 29 March 1964) was an English poet and playwright. His play Babel was staged on several occasions. Anderson was born in Salford...
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Look up redwood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Redwood is a common name for Sequoioideae, a subfamily of coniferous trees. Redwood or Redwood Tree may...
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until 2024, it was represented solely by Conservatives, most notably, John Redwood, who held his position from 1987 until 2024 when he stepped down after...
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RNSP contain Redwood National Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. The...
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Portillo's cautious loyalty to Major during the 1995 leadership challenge of John Redwood, following Major's "back me or sack me" resignation as party leader....
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Sequoioideae (redirect from Redwoods)
Sequoioideae, commonly referred to as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae, that range in the northern hemisphere...
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1995 Conservative Party leadership election (category Premiership of John Major)
beating the only other candidate, the former Secretary of State for Wales, John Redwood. For some years the Conservative Party had been deeply divided on the...
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Michael Palliser Jack Peel John Redwood Norman Stone Sir Cyril Taylor Anthony Teasdale Nicholas True Alan Walters David Willetts John Whittingdale David Wolfson...
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mid-1995 as acting Secretary of State for Wales after the incumbent, John Redwood, stepped down to be a candidate. He lost his seat in the Labour landslide...
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Other newcomers included future Cabinet members David Blunkett and John Redwood, future Shadow Cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe, and future SNP Leader...
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European Monetary Union is a 1996 book by British Conservative politician John Redwood. In the book, he argues that the European single currency would be a...
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Cabinet Minister in 1995 as Secretary of State for Wales; succeeding John Redwood, who had been castigated for being seen on TV apparently miming the Welsh...
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October 2021 before becoming the leader of the council in May 2022, succeeding John Halsall. Jones stepped down as council leader in May 2023 and was succeeded...
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Geoffrey Howe Keith Joseph Nigel Lawson Peter Lilley John Nott Cecil Parkinson Michael Portillo John Redwood Nicholas Ridley Norman Tebbit Margaret Thatcher...
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Michael Palliser Jack Peel John Redwood Norman Stone Sir Cyril Taylor Anthony Teasdale Nicholas True Alan Walters David Willetts John Whittingdale David Wolfson...
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listed by Vaz in the House of Commons Register of Members' Interests and John Redwood, then head of the Conservative Parliamentary Campaigns Unit, questioned...
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John Simon Bercow (/ˈbɜːrkoʊ/; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and...
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consent. 12 May 1994: Edition following the death of Labour Party leader John Smith, which sees panellists depart from the usual political debate to pay...
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Conservative Party (UK) (section 1990–1997: John Major)
Blair, Cameron, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, John Redwood, Kenneth Clarke, Diana, Princess of Wales, George. "Lecture 5 The...
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Conservative Party, including MPs such as Iain Duncan Smith, Daniel Hannan, John Redwood, and Norman Lamont. However, it is formally an independent all-party...
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pronouncing "any enemy of John Major is an enemy of mine." In the party leadership contest of 1995, when John Major beat John Redwood, Clarke kept faith in...
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Archie Norman (redirect from Archibald John Norman)
Archibald John Norman (born 1 May 1954) is a British businessman and politician. He is the only person to have been chairman of an FTSE 100 company and...
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Metasequoia glyptostroboides (redirect from Dawn redwood)
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia...
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embraced this libertarianism, others in the Thatcherite movement such as John Redwood sought to become more populist. Some commentators have argued that Thatcherism...
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Assembly. Conservative prospects in Wales were not aided by Welsh Secretary John Redwood, who was unpopular in Wales and, in Major's words, "did not take to the...
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Defeated incumbent, Jonathan Lord Wokingham Clive Jones Previous incumbent, John Redwood, did not stand Yeovil Adam Dance Defeated incumbent, Marcus Fysh...
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